All Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas was to have her perennial holiday song at number 1 again.
Well, she got it at Billboard, where the charts are let’s say, fungible.
But the song has struggled this season to retain its crown.
On Spotify today, “All I Want” is number 5.
On iTunes, it’s number 4 on the holiday song chart, and number 10 on the pop chart. On the holiday album chart, the Carey Christmas album is number 7.
The record, which Carey trots out every year despite having no non holiday pop hits for years, got slagged this morning on New York’s Fox 5 by Rosanna Scotto on a hot mic.
“How much does she make from this shit?” Scotto asked. Hilarious.
Carey wrote the song with composer Walter Afanasieff, whose name rarely gets mentioned.
“All I Want” does benefit from streaming. Last week, according to Luminate, it sold only 3,100 paid downloads. But streaming kicked the total up to 257K. And still it wasn’t number 1.
Why is it number 1 on Billboard?
Meantime, the actual number 1 Christmas song this season is by Michael Buble and Carly Pearce. It’s called “‘”Maybe This Christmas,” released in 2011.
